By Francis Ekeh

The Supreme Court up until today HAS REFUSED to provide any CTC for the judgment of Labour Party and Peter Obi’s case against Tinubu, Shettima and APC.

Remember that on Oct 26, 2023, we were all at the Supreme Court for judgement.
The Supreme Court only proceeded to read the judgment for PDP.
After that, the Presiding Justice, John Inyang Okoro JSC, verbally stated that the decision for PDP applies to Labour Party.
No judgement was read or given for Labour Party at the Supreme Court. All the Judge said was that “the judgment for PDP has also been applied for Labour Party”.

Everyone found it shocking, most especially because the case filed by PDP and LP are different and the appeals are two different appeals, apart from the 25% votes in Abuja.

The Supreme Court has now refused to provide any Certified True Copy for any judgment for the Labour Party Case, this means that either the Judgement is not ready and the Supreme Court wanted to illegally quickly squash the case or the Supreme Court is avoiding to give any judgement because they know how vital the issues on the Labour Party’s case are:

(i)Forfeiture of funds by Tinubu being proceeds of narcotics trafficking contained in the LP petition (APC avoided to mention this in the reply and the Supreme Court has still not given any judgement for this).

(ii)Double nomination of the 3rd Respondent Shettima (PDP did not include Shettima in their case, it was Labour Party that included him and the Supreme Court are yet to provide any judgement on this).

(iii)Failure to comply with the mandatory requirement of Section 73(2) of the Electoral Act, 2022, the consequence of which the provision stipulates, renders the election invalid (The Supreme Court are yet to provide judgement for this).

(iv)The effect of the certified true copies of 18,123 blurred and unreadable polling unit result sheets (Form EC8As) downloaded from the IReV, issued by the NEC to the LP and its candidate which they tendered in Court. Some were blank A4 papers, pictures, and images of unknown persons. They were purported to be copies of polling units results. Even with the materiality of the issue, the Court of Appeal evaded making a finding on it.

These were all part of the LP appeal but not that of the PDP appeal, so how can the judge refuse to give any response on it up until today.

The Labour Party sent a letter dated 26th October 2023, to the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court for the certified true copy of the judgment in the LP appeal but no response was given.
Again, on the 8th November 2023, Labour Party sent a letter requesting for the Certified True Copy of the judgement but no response was given.

Section 294(1) mandates the Supreme Court to furnish all parties with duly authenticated copies of the decision within SEVEN DAYS of the delivery.

Up until today there is no CTC for Peter Obi and Labour Party’s case against Tinubu, Shettima and APC.

IT IS EMBARRASSING that the Supreme Court does not have any judgment for Labour Party and Peter Obi’s case because they are trying to hide facts.
If they have a judgment then they should avail Labour Party with the copy of the judgment and stop hiding by the corners.